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Today, it is the Oklahoma Panhandle, but during the late 1880s it was popularly known as "No Man's Land." The Public Land Strip, seasonal home to nomadic American Indians of the High Plains, was controlled by Comanche bands and allied groups from 1850 to 1875.
Located at the highest point in Oklahoma in the Black Mesa region on the western edge of the Panhandle, commonly known as "No Man's Land," Robbers' Roost boasts a history of majesty and myth.
Because No Man's Land, the present Oklahoma Panhandle, lacked law enforcement or a significant population at the time, outlaws easily avoided the reach of the law. When settlers, mainly cattle ranchers and coal and copper miners, arrived and demanded protection, the lawless element was subdued.
Prior to the Oklahoma Organic Act of May 2, 1890, there was no law in No Man's Land, also called the Public Land Strip (now known as the Oklahoma Panhandle), and scant population in what later became Cimarron County.
Some of the livelier and more colorful Oklahoma ghost towns have been the "liquor towns." In 1888 Beer City, in No Man's Land (also known as the Public Land Strip and the Oklahoma Panhandle), catered to cowboys and cattle dealers with its saloons and dance halls.
In 1975 the federal government took four thousand acres of rangeland surrounding the lake for a national wildlife refuge. Oklahoma Panhandle State University, established in 1909 as a land grant college called Pan-Handle Agricultural Institute, is located at Goodwell, as is the No Man's Land Historical Museum.
In addition, the Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca family had grants in central and eastern New Mexico and in Colorado and was apparently using pastures in present Union County and in the Public Land Strip (or Neutral Strip, No Man's Land, Oklahoma Panhandle) at least by the late 1860s.
According to the Oklahoma Organic Act of May 2, 1890, the U.S. Congress added the Oklahoma Panhandle, or No Man's Land, to the new territory; parts of the Panhandle were already settled. Old Greer County, long in ownership dispute between Texas and Oklahoma, was awarded to Oklahoma Territory and opened to homesteading by virtue of U.S. Supreme ...
Old Beaver county (No-Man's Land) represents the his-tory of the United States. It has been included in many cessions of territory, being tossed here and there at the will of kings, consuls, presidents and private individuals. It is what was left after the great land adjustments in North America.
Cimarron Territory refers to the area that is now the Oklahoma Panhandle, a strip of land 34 miles wide and 169 miles long. In the 1880s a grassroots movement sought territorial status for Cimarron Territory.